This provision is targeted at the commissioner. It's to protect the confidentiality of information, because, clearly, the commission receives a lot of sensitive business information. You see this in other legislation, with the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, for example. To the extent they receive confidential information from an institution, it is the obligation of the commissioner, and anybody acting in respect of the commissioner, to treat that information confidentially.
On April 29th, 2010. See this statement in context.